5 Felled By Fumes Leave Hospital

August 04, 1987

Five people overcome by carbon monoxide fumes in an Oak Park apartment Sunday as they planned funeral arrangements for a woman who was found dead in the apartment the previous day, have been released from Edgewater Hospital, officials said Monday. Barbara Dennis, 33, of 1127 Erie St., was found dead in her first-floor apartment Saturday by her boyfriend, said Oak Park Fire Capt. Joseph Kotalik. ``The boyfriend called the fire department and said she may have died from a heart attack,`` Kotalik said. ``But we learned (Sunday) that the woman who died and the five people who were in the apartment were overcome by carbon monoxide fumes.`` Chicagoans William, 65, and Rose Smith, 64, the victim`s parents; Mary, 32, and John Ember, 33, of Brookfield; and Marianne Zarnecki, 33, of Oak Lawn, were treated in the incident.